Catholic Charities to drop Family Builders
The Archdiocese of San Francisco's Catholic Charities plans to sever its two-year funding relationship with an adoption agency, Family Builders by Adoption, that focuses on placing children with homosexuals.
"The funding from Catholic Charities is ending this [budget] year," Jill Jacobs, executive director of Family Builders by Adoption, told Our Sunday Visitor Sept. 25. Catholic Charities CYO currently provides two staff members for the agency at a cost of about $250,000 annually.
It is not clear what motivated the decision, which means the archdiocese will no longer have any involvement with adoptions. A Catholic Charities spokeswoman declined to comment.
Well that is good news, though they should never have contracted with them in the first place. Previously they had sent paid staff to "Family Builders by adoption" whose goal was "Increasing the number of children adopted by Lesbian, Gay Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) adults." What is sad is how the homosexual lobby has pushed Catholics out of providing adoptions in California and Massachusetts. The goal of the homosexual lobby is not about tolerance but forced acceptance and the Catholic faith has to be pushed into the closet.
Hat tip to Fr. John Malloy, SDB who has been on the forefront with coverage on this for the last couple years.
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So now they no longer have adoption services? how sad. As frustrated I get with CC, CC's adoption services, IMO, was one of the last essential tools we had in the fight against abortion.
This is such a sad, but illuminating, case.
With the way they forced the Church out of the adoption process, the LGBT community has clearly indicated that it cares more for their sexual identity than for unadopted children.
So now they no longer have adoption services? how sad. As frustrated I get with CC, CC's adoption services, IMO, was one of the last essential tools we had in the fight against abortion.
With the way they forced the Church out of the adoption process, the LGBT community has clearly indicated that it cares more for their sexual identity than for unadopted children.
Yes - it's not about religious freedom or putting children first. It's about forcing people to accept all ideologies while dumping on their own.
This has to annoy a good number of the homosexual priests who have had that diocese by the neck for decades.
The Church should challenge this in the courts. Surely there is a colorable First Amendment argument to be made here.
$250K for two employees? I'd like a piece of that action. Don't know of many social workers banking six figures in this state.
I just don't understand why the govt can't allow religious organizations to discriminate regarding which clients they will serve. It's not like the gays didn't have anywhere else to go. What about freedom of association?
Do you think they'd require a Muslim agency to serve Christian clients?